Living in Denial

The ELCA’s Presiding Bishop Mark S. Hanson was interviewed by Minnesota Public Radio concerning the recent news of Luther Seminary, the denomination’s largest seminary, having extreme financial difficulties.

Here is one section from the interview -

Interviewer: “You are the head of the nation’s largest Lutheran denomination, the ELCA.  And as you know, you’ve lost about 600 or so congregations after that controversial decision allowing openly gay and lesbian pastors to service.  Is a drop in seminary enrollment a refection of that decision at all?”

Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson:  “I don’t, I don’t see that.  In fact, many young adults that I encounter, that I am on Twitter with and that I’m constantly in conversation with, in fact see that as a source of hope for this church and something that is drawing them into the life of this church.” (listen here)

Under Mark Hanson’s leadership, perversion was promenaded into the church with joyous celebration.  Sinful acts against God have been declared good.  When a church turns its back on God, godly men and women will leave and take their tithes with them.  But as we read above, the leader of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is living in denial by not seeing that the disregard for God and His Word is the main reason for it being a dying, financially-challenged denomination.